I always find it entertaining that botw speedrunners can break the game enough to literally manipulate their inventory and get illegal weapons, yet the Great Plateau is still mandatory
I think there is a way to skip plateau, but it requires another file to do a hard glitch in and a lot of time, and it also took years to find. So not usable in speedruns.
@@arttukettunen5757 If you're talking about the glitch I'm thinking of, I'm pretty sure whilst that glitch can get you out of the plateau for a second, it immediately causes you to "fall" and spawns you back. (I'm guessing you're talking about the shrine glitch, if not though that's on me lol)
Is the automatic void-out even understood yet? One theory ive heard is that the game checks your coordinates every few seconds, if your coordinates are outside of a “box” that surrounds the great plateau, you get voided out, and this box is removed when you get the paraglider.
@@ddgaxelnilsson7855 kinda. The game has a few conditions it checks. If you don't have the paraglider outside of the plateau then it will void you out. I'm not sure what the others are but smant has shown off some things that manipulate this in his no sheikah slate run.
I was dying when you explained how punishing making a mistake during the first hour was and then immediately had to reset 45min because you forgot a single torch
Thunder blight is one of my favorites. I'd been fighting it for like ten minutes straight, tanking loads of damage, when Urbosa said something to the effect of "Dodge, ya wimp," and from that point forward I could parry/dodge anything.
thunderblight isnt hard i have not played a zelda game in 4 months and i come back to botw too easy i only have 35 hours on totk now and i have all 4 dungeons (still working on mineru) the master sword and i killed the lynel colleseum 0 deaths
@@rynxuz he's either joking, or got a pirated copy, in which case, shame on him edit : nevermind, i forgot for a moment we were talking about nintendo. pirate to your heart content
I love the part with Link just sailing through those ruins with all the Guardians. Just gliding through the air like a doofus, all that anti-air laser fire from below, the Guardians probably like "What is _this_ shit!?"... xD
I love how you've done an insane amount of glitches by 6:00ish when you explain that you need to do the plateau before anything else. That one bastion stands firm against glitches, no matter how wide open the rest of the game has been broken to that point. Kind of awe-inspiring, tbh.
I actually really like that the great plateau can't be skipped. It's caused a ton of innovation in how to get those 4 shrines as quickly as possible. If you remove the plateau from an any% speedrun, it's not that interesting.
I love how many shortcuts actually show how good the physics engine can be. Like sometimes where the game designers want you to hit something with a very big object going pretty fast but you can shortcut it by making a pretty big object go very fast.
I am a firm believer that Smallant not only practices his speedrunning for 100s of hours to complete things like this, but practices his commentary for it as well. He's just too good at dumbing it down for us while making it extremely entertaining lmao
Its easy to explain things if you’re passionate or understand it well. Theres a quote I like that essentially says that if you are unable to concisely explain a topic, you yourself do not understand it well.
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I wish more people would explain things throughout the run the way you did. I love learning about what you're doing and why you have to have certain items at certain times. Good stuff.
1:10 From the start this run was blessed hell yeah! 16:52 The flat "I'm going to be menu-ing for about 20 minutes." lmao. 20:44 Smallant learns the basics of the psychology behind creating habits lol. 1:21:32 "Paya should be on her knees crying... fantastic!"
@@thegreatpapyrus2306 if you look at the speed runs you can see that of all time the slowest speedrun on 100% was smallant’s by far which was beaten by runs even 6+ years ago it was never even remotely that slow
Yeah hearing ant even speak about his school days shows you how both socially and intellectually smart he is, the humility toward academics aswell showing he doesn’t value them as highly as one would at first glance, because he’s smart.
The fact that he can even do these speed runs this fast and explain a whole bunch of random stuff and the different stuff he has to do at the same time while managing a stream is wild
He definitely doesn't remember all their locations, alot but not all. Speedrunners will almost always have their notes up on the side to tell them what to do when, where and how. It allows speedrunners to have the correct information available without the need to desperately remember each detail.
I genuinely remember failing that Korok time circle thing at 1:16:16 like 20 times my first time I ever played the game. Obviously I didn’t know the speed running tricks and broke like 5 shields because I thought that was how to do it. You can imagine my frustration when I got reminded of that puzzle after having completely forgotten it and seeing you complete it while getting 3 other korok seeds I didn’t even know about at the same time.
7:28 The "wait to skip the shrine cutscene" trick is actually really useful in casual playthrough, I wish I had known that, that would have saved me so much loading time.
@@buttonasas Oh, it has nothing to do with the duplication glitch, it's a really simple glitch to pull off that lets you run without using stamina by spamming the whistle button. Or if you were talking about the shrine cutscene glitch, it's only a trick to save loading time. Apparently if you skip the cutscene too soon while talking to the monk, it will reload the overworld unnecessarily. It's arguably a bug, not a game breaking one, but it does make you wait on the loading screen a tiny bit more and is a bit annoying. From what Smant's saying, if you wait the right amount while talking to the monk before pressing X, it will indeed save you some loading time.
The knowledge and control ability that goes into this is insane. I remember being pumped a few months back that I could still do LTTP in under 8 hours 100% from memory. I am like 80 hours into BOTW and still need a few hundred Koroks.
This man was born for twitch, holyyy. The multitasking between telling stories and knocking down every task he had to complete in the game. Holy crap 👌🏼
I mean, with the amount of time you have to spend practicing for a speed run, he could probably do most of this with his eyes shut. It's still hugely impressive, and Ant is one of my favorite streamers.
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Man never ceases to amaze me. He may not get the world records, but he does the whole run while explaining every step, talking about whatever's on his mind, reading chat, and not missing a beat. Plus, he's into pure math, and wants to teach. I don't think I could describe a better guy if I tried
In fairness, as another unmedicated adhd person, it might just be because he’s talking so fast in this video that our attention spans don’t have time to wander
Right? My favorite video of his ever, from any channel, is where he told the story of how he almost died and proceeded to get unlimited popsicles, somehow turning into a debate about if a carrot is a spice, all while beating smo as Nintended (trademark) Quality content.
1:08:35 They did patch out bokoblin archers firing infinite arrows, before you could just indefinitely collect the arrows they shoot and there was no cap to how many you could collect from each one.
3 years ago I watched the original smallant 100% runs, and they were some of my favorite videos on youtube. so glad it's back, I've been waiting 3 years for some quality smallant BotW content again.
Bro his Math teacher actually played him so hard lmao, made him get engaged with the whole class and used his learning skills to everyone advantage, while also letting the teacher check that Smant had learned it properly
Eh, I’d believe it. I remember fiddling with the calculator to make little programs and games too - funnily enough in precalc in 9th grade. My mind was blown when I learned you could interact with the graph screen!!~ I ended up making a silly little game kinda like snake where ya had to avoid crossing over your own line as ya went from one point to another and called it line thing. It was fun to fiddle with- though I struggled with the meaning of soh cah toa for the longest time until I wanted to try and make circles bounce off one another in a Java programming class later. Hell, the 98/99 of 100 questions feels similar too. I was constantly a bit different - for better and worse - when it came to various things due to mental stuff that was understood very little at the time (ADHD, Autism, etc) I was always the kid that would try to ask questions about things for the better of others - and in a lotta cases I was simply oblivious to how various things normally are. Hell, I’d bring snacks like goldfish n’ “Jesus pretzels” (butter snaps nicknamed because they tasted divine). Despite fights breaking out seemingly almost daily, I was just kinda vibing throughout with zero enemies ahahah But ye - regardless of whether smant’s stories are ultimately true or false, I think they’re surprisingly believable :o
@@Egg_Ming_Gaahyperfixations are really common with autism! if BOTW was someone's special interest, they're going to spend as much time as possible playing. it's a massive dopamine dump. there's probably a better way to explain this but that's how it makes sense to me! hope this was helpful. :)
@@Egg_Ming_Gaa it's mostly diagnostic sensationalism (but is also jokingly memed about). As someone who has an autistic diagnosis myself and have known many people on the spectrum.. I can assure you the "hyperfixation" is mostly a myth (in the sense of it being portrayed as a distinct "ability") Autistic people tend to have very narrow interests due to being less socialized, resulting in a lack of "flexibility" and adopting new interests. This in turn might create the illusion of "hyperfixation". It has nothing to do about the actual ability to focus or stay focused, but rather the lack of diversity in personal interests, which manifests into very "one note" lifestyles that from an outside perspective might appear as if they have some sort of "superfocus" or fixation.
@@itsentdev are you replying to me or someone else? because that is essentially what i said. my point being that the ability of being able to "focus better" stems more from the fact that one has specific and limited interests, but not necessarily some distinct "special ability" to focus better than other humans (which alot of sensationalist media might sell it as).
the run is already insane on its own but you being able to commentate the whole thing and explain why you're doing things and how certain tricks work is incredible and super entertaining!
Did you know? For the koroks that require you to chase the special flower, (20:55) the flower is normally yellow. If the flower turns white, that means that when you get the flower that time, you'll actually get the korok seed. Neat little bit of information I learned. :)
I completed the mainline and few extra in about 4 months. You're a goddamn machine to have played and entertained for 20 hours and still look and sound the same at the last minute of that !
I've had this thought before, and I am very much similar to him in school experience, but his personality, ease of interacting with chat with appropriate (and rarely overexplained) responses, and career/personal history would suggest he's not autistic. He's pretty smart and may have a dopamine disorder like ADHD, but he's doesn't seem to have ASD. I say all this as an autistic man who's spent a lot of time studying neurology and brain disorders while trying to find out about his own disorders.
@@conorreedR2C It's cus he makes up most of the "personal" shit he tells you. You really think he just self taught himself T1-basic in the small amount of time you have for 1 class everyday? You guys will believe anything this turd tells you lmao
With just how well spoken smallant can be and his ability to explain everything as he plays so well a casual can understand he would be a great teacher.
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Its a testament to how massive this game is that even when you break it wide open like these speedruns do, the game still takes longer to beat than most AAA games played casually.
@@user-.--.- but it's not really a testament of anything, 90% of open world titles take days if you collect all 900 fragments/posters/koroks, it's not anything botw excels at
Bro spedran so many things that sound like a meme, pencil sharpening, calculator, cookie clicker. Like those sound like comedic post ironic satirical memes in reference to speedrunning
The whole story from 46:07 to 55:32 is fascinating. This is the first SmallAnt video I've seen but it really gives and insight into how his brain works. And the final line is perfect "You know what'll happen to the valedictorian, he's just a degenerate that plays video games all day in his basement".
It was half bullshit and absolutely insanely cringe at best. "I self taught myself T1-basic (notice how he didn't even know to call it that) and made super complex programs that auto anwer questions (which makes no sense cus he didn't know how to answer those questions, cus he hadn't learnt them yet, so how can he program something to do something he doesn't know how to do? He doesn't have access to repositories or others code so spoilers - he can't) for me all in the short time I have in class everyday!" No. No he really didn't. He making shit up to sound cool and flex on little kids. There's a reason he's a streamer and it's not because he's just SO AMAZING!!!! 🤦♀
3 years ago I watched the original smallant 100% runs, and they were some of my favorite videos on youtube. so glad it's back, I've been waiting 3 years for some quality smallant BotW content again.
Bruh I’m watching 5 minutes into the speed run and I already love how e is able to do everything so fast while explaining everything perfectly super fast but just slow enogh to understand what he’s talking about I just love it especially since this is my first time watching the channel
i genuinely dont regret watching all 1 and a half hours of this at all, this speedrun is a lot cooler than i expected it to be, and your commentary kept it entertaining throughout.
@@strawberryjades It's a sweater too lmao. Everyone saying "same shirt" as if it's a t-shirt touching skin. It's a sweater. If you wash your sweater or jeans everytime you wear them just becuase you wore them and didn't get something on them, you dumb AF. Also he knew he was youtubing this. Wearing the same sweater just makes the video look better. Pretty simple lol
Lots of props to that teacher who eventually ended up making you teach the class. Right when you started that story, I could tell that he wasn't having a "bad day" but was trying to "trick you" into paying more attention in class and being engaged. He knew you understood the material (perhaps even better than himself) and wanted to give you a way to helping you help your peers give an better understanding of the coursework, from a new perspective. I come from a family of teachers and I've seen a lot of shitty ones that should *not* be teaching. This guy was a good egg.
I like this guys videos as white noise because I literally don't know how to focus and I love being so insanely lost and having no idea what this guy's talking about whenever I zone back to ants voice, it's really fun to figure out what just happened. keep doing what you do Ant, love your videos!
between the school stories and your descriptions of how you speedrun there is definitely something up with you, but you seem to be doing great. keep up the good work man
44:31 - 46:00 I just love how you describing yourself as a 4 year-old drinking a box of apple juice and then ending up absolutely despising it can be so weirdly entertaining to listen to. I so relate to when you said ''It's been 23 years since I've had apple juice, I'll try it again. And then I had it, and it was the same feeling... disgust, couldn't stand the stuff.'', so much so that I immediately hit the like button when you were done with your sentence.
Im just impressed how speedrunners like Smallant have to know the right path AND the complex glitches in their brain. I think that they have some of the best memory and reactions due to these runs
I realized this is the edited speedrun, and I really appreciate you putting this out just before the release of TOTK so that all of us can enjoy your video, and refresh our minds of the game entirely with you. At some point I'll have to watch you stream for a whole speedrun unedited!
I don’t know why but I really want a smallant podcast where he just reviews games he likes talks about his life and just stuff in general like his voice is so damn calm for me
1:14:29 - Since I just found it myself today, it’s another of the roll-the-snowball puzzles on the southeast side of the Hebra North Summit. It’s easier to find with clear skies if you can ever get it to stop snowing.
So how tf does he stream daily, edit daily, post daily, and have time to map out these speedruns and practice them? My mind is BLOWN. This man is a maniac is the absolute best way. Go Ant
He’s got a manager but he said in his totk video that he is gonna edit them so they come out as soon as possible. He’s great at being swamped with work but still being calm
Speedruns for not only Tears of the Kingdom Any% but also 100% is really going to be interesting when it comes out and what type of new glitches and exploits will be found to make it even faster
Spoilers..... 100% Speedrun is gonna be twice as long cuz there is whole underground Depths (which is the size of whole hyrule map underground) as well as sky islands. There is long ass quest at the start of the game which takes 2 hrs before the game sets us free with paraglider. Its not looking good.
its literally going to be the exact same things used here at the beginning. its basically the same game as the first one, so most of the exploits will more than likely be the same.
Imagine being a monk in a Shrine for 5000 years waiting for the worthy hero of hyrule to take time completing your shrine, and he just bombs himself over using a lil'boomy-zoomy. No wonder the monks disappeared in ToTK, taking the bomb rune with them.
The wait for his 100% speedrun was so worth it and more, omg. Seeing how far he has come in speedrunning and streaming is amazing as a viewer of 3 years. Amazing work, and I can't wait for new content from him with ToK.
Hearing your experiences in school reminds me so much of a friend of mine who was brilliant at most subject but just did what was necessary to get overall good grades and focussed on games and fun stuff. He was always super cool to everyone and was willing to help anyone who asked for help understanding smthn. I think it’s super fun that ppl like the both of you who are so academically skilled took one look at school and said “nah I’ll be in my room gaming :)”
I think I know why I enjoy SmallAnt so much. He's like a faster talking NorthernLion that more uses life experiences than media references. Sounds exactly like him sometimes, down to the vocal pitch.
holy shit imagine editing a 90 minute video and imagine being smallant making this video massive respect to anyone involved in the making of this video
Your original 100% run of BOTW was my favorite series on your channel! I’ve probably watched it 4-5 times now since they’ve all come out and I’m so happy to see you doing this run again.
I always find it entertaining that botw speedrunners can break the game enough to literally manipulate their inventory and get illegal weapons, yet the Great Plateau is still mandatory
I think there is a way to skip plateau, but it requires another file to do a hard glitch in and a lot of time, and it also took years to find. So not usable in speedruns.
True🤣
@@arttukettunen5757 If you're talking about the glitch I'm thinking of, I'm pretty sure whilst that glitch can get you out of the plateau for a second, it immediately causes you to "fall" and spawns you back. (I'm guessing you're talking about the shrine glitch, if not though that's on me lol)
Is the automatic void-out even understood yet? One theory ive heard is that the game checks your coordinates every few seconds, if your coordinates are outside of a “box” that surrounds the great plateau, you get voided out, and this box is removed when you get the paraglider.
@@ddgaxelnilsson7855 kinda. The game has a few conditions it checks. If you don't have the paraglider outside of the plateau then it will void you out. I'm not sure what the others are but smant has shown off some things that manipulate this in his no sheikah slate run.
I was dying when you explained how punishing making a mistake during the first hour was and then immediately had to reset 45min because you forgot a single torch
RNGsus be like "yeah, speaking of which fuck you"
Ant's ability to speedrun this well, as well as explain everything he is doing in a way that it can make sense to any casual is so incredible.
He is truly pog
It’s the big fred
Thunder blight is one of my favorites. I'd been fighting it for like ten minutes straight, tanking loads of damage, when Urbosa said something to the effect of "Dodge, ya wimp," and from that point forward I could parry/dodge anything.
I mean, what works works I guess😂
thunderblight isnt hard i have not played a zelda game in 4 months and i come back to botw too easy i only have 35 hours on totk now and i have all 4 dungeons (still working on mineru) the master sword and i killed the lynel colleseum 0 deaths
@@zvxk_gamez Sounds like a great first play through. Hope you have fun!
@@cmayotte9431 not my first avidentall reset my swithc and have to replay lol
accidentally reset my switch*
The instant shift from talking for 45 minutes about speedrun strats to remembering apple juice caught me incredibly off guard
Then like 20 minutes of pure flexing on us plebs
Errbody gangsta till smant remember appyjuice
44:31
That means that it is a chill stream😊
44:41 through 55:36 is “story time” (It is not all about Apple juice)
I think Link, the legendary swordsman, almost died from a heart attack when he heard you listing all the things to do in a single day.
Tbf it took link in botw time months
Honestly I would want to die if I were link
True
In Botw time 24 hours is 150 days
"Ferb, I know what we're gonna do today!"
Bro practicing for tears of the kingdom where he gonna shed real tears
Just finished totk and tbh it’s really good
@@irenh4512
tf?
@@rynxuz he's either joking, or got a pirated copy, in which case, shame on him
edit : nevermind, i forgot for a moment we were talking about nintendo. pirate to your heart content
@@mikael100100 yes (edit: no. i do not agree with pirating nintendo games)
@@rynxuz Game got leaked.
I love the part with Link just sailing through those ruins with all the Guardians. Just gliding through the air like a doofus, all that anti-air laser fire from below, the Guardians probably like "What is _this_ shit!?"... xD
"I'm just gonna glide, I am above the conflicts of this mortal realm~"
It's insane how much Botw has evolved in 6 years.
It's incredible to think that we'll have a sequel 6 years later 😄
Just imagine once Tears of the Kingdom releases, how broken those speed runs are gonna get
And yet it's still full price after all these years
@@Toast4128 imo worth it still
And yet has to feel like a zelda game.
I love how you've done an insane amount of glitches by 6:00ish when you explain that you need to do the plateau before anything else. That one bastion stands firm against glitches, no matter how wide open the rest of the game has been broken to that point. Kind of awe-inspiring, tbh.
There is a reason Zelda sent Link to the plateau. The place is impenetrable.
Well I’d say the fact that you need the slate and the first 4 powers along with the paraglider means that you pretty much have to do the plateau
I actually really like that the great plateau can't be skipped. It's caused a ton of innovation in how to get those 4 shrines as quickly as possible. If you remove the plateau from an any% speedrun, it's not that interesting.
I love how many shortcuts actually show how good the physics engine can be. Like sometimes where the game designers want you to hit something with a very big object going pretty fast but you can shortcut it by making a pretty big object go very fast.
or in some situations, a small object going mach 10
The way he casually talks about intuitively feeling the route is the only proof I need that this guy would 100% cheese high school.
_So did you and I._
well he was valedictorian
What? Having an average memory makes you above average?
okay.
Smant was valedictorian
@@chrish4439 being able to commit an entire, several hour route to subconscious memory with that much reliability is far more than average.
I am a firm believer that Smallant not only practices his speedrunning for 100s of hours to complete things like this, but practices his commentary for it as well. He's just too good at dumbing it down for us while making it extremely entertaining lmao
I prefer to think he just has an IRL 12th level intellect he's hiding from us.
@@TyshaggyGaming real
lol he runs over different ways of trying to explain it in his head while he practices speedruns
Its easy to explain things if you’re passionate or understand it well. Theres a quote I like that essentially says that if you are unable to concisely explain a topic, you yourself do not understand it well.
@@CPUSublimeHeart eh I dunno about that one, some things are just real hard to explain concisely if the person doesn't have any foreknowledge
Didn't think he'd ever do it again after last time! Cool to see how far he's come as a gamer and streamer since then.
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@@Vanguard-II love you too bro
Me neither but I think he accidentally removed his old 100% save data
@@Vanguard-II 14:27 14:28
me too, Whole reason i clicked on this hahaha
I wish more people would explain things throughout the run the way you did. I love learning about what you're doing and why you have to have certain items at certain times. Good stuff.
@@randoprior4130 damn thanks, i like this stuff too
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Dude! Me too!😂❤
I wish I knew of these people before lol😂
1:10 From the start this run was blessed hell yeah!
16:52 The flat "I'm going to be menu-ing for about 20 minutes." lmao.
20:44 Smallant learns the basics of the psychology behind creating habits lol.
1:21:32 "Paya should be on her knees crying... fantastic!"
It’s crazy how much faster the game has gotten. From around 69 hours(granted without much practice before) to a little under 20 hours.
The game has been sub 20 hours for around 4 years and current war is 15 hours
@@skallaskalla3278 I think his point is more that before then, it was much longer and the route’s been optimized more since even that.
@@thegreatpapyrus2306 if you look at the speed runs you can see that of all time the slowest speedrun on 100% was smallant’s by far which was beaten by runs even 6+ years ago it was never even remotely that slow
@@skallaskalla3278 Well then I must’ve just been mistaken, is all.
Let’s be real. He did 69 the first time on purpose 😏
It's unbelievable that Ant can speedrun so well and explain everything he does in a way that any normal person can understand
Yeah hearing ant even speak about his school days shows you how both socially and intellectually smart he is, the humility toward academics aswell showing he doesn’t value them as highly as one would at first glance, because he’s smart.
LINKUS OWNS SMALLANT 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Who is ant? I only know of the big Fred
even his shitty life
@@kahlebhowarth-jennings9688 he literally speedruns talking
The fact that he can even do these speed runs this fast and explain a whole bunch of random stuff and the different stuff he has to do at the same time while managing a stream is wild
Literally lmfao, if i was in his shoes id just be silently staring at the screen with how focussed i am
@@hailtheisaacand I’d still be messing up even while being silent
I guess we could say it was a breath of the wild all along ...
The fact he can remember where all 120 shrines are, all 900 koroks, and most items in this huge ass map is mind-boggling
And to do it all in one day like bro no way way how
He definitely doesn't remember all their locations, alot but not all. Speedrunners will almost always have their notes up on the side to tell them what to do when, where and how. It allows speedrunners to have the correct information available without the need to desperately remember each detail.
@@FreyR_Kunn it's still insanely impressive though...
I mean he did say that he has the route for the speedrun
bruh he literally said he had the entire route on the side.
I genuinely remember failing that Korok time circle thing at 1:16:16 like 20 times my first time I ever played the game. Obviously I didn’t know the speed running tricks and broke like 5 shields because I thought that was how to do it. You can imagine my frustration when I got reminded of that puzzle after having completely forgotten it and seeing you complete it while getting 3 other korok seeds I didn’t even know about at the same time.
Thats rough man :(
Speed runner moment
7:28 The "wait to skip the shrine cutscene" trick is actually really useful in casual playthrough, I wish I had known that, that would have saved me so much loading time.
Definitely. I use that and the stamina glitch in my regular playthroughs, just because they're so easy to do.
@@choppercove I think so. It really is easy to do
Can you explain it more? I didn't really get it. Wouldn't it reset after closing and opening the game anyways?
@@buttonasas Oh, it has nothing to do with the duplication glitch, it's a really simple glitch to pull off that lets you run without using stamina by spamming the whistle button.
Or if you were talking about the shrine cutscene glitch, it's only a trick to save loading time.
Apparently if you skip the cutscene too soon while talking to the monk, it will reload the overworld unnecessarily. It's arguably a bug, not a game breaking one, but it does make you wait on the loading screen a tiny bit more and is a bit annoying.
From what Smant's saying, if you wait the right amount while talking to the monk before pressing X, it will indeed save you some loading time.
IKR
17:05 Smallant really pulled a "I did a little mining off camera, and now I'm rich, immortal, and ready to kill gods."
The knowledge and control ability that goes into this is insane. I remember being pumped a few months back that I could still do LTTP in under 8 hours 100% from memory. I am like 80 hours into BOTW and still need a few hundred Koroks.
Knowing that the world record for 100% is almost 5 hours faster terrifies me
Speedrunners are another kind of human beings
Ngl
What...
@@LynnLyns They got that Crack-head level potential built-in
What the Speed Demon hell 😀
@@IWantThatKey sorry, 4 hours and 32 minutes faster, I'll make sure I have a permit for the word "almost" next time.
This man was born for twitch, holyyy. The multitasking between telling stories and knocking down every task he had to complete in the game. Holy crap 👌🏼
I mean, with the amount of time you have to spend practicing for a speed run, he could probably do most of this with his eyes shut.
It's still hugely impressive, and Ant is one of my favorite streamers.
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TIME IS ALMOST UP! PREPARE YOURSELVES, TURN FROM SIN & RUN TO JESUS! HE KNOWS YOUR PAIN & TROUBLES, HE WANTS TO HEAL & RESTORE YOU! CONFESS YOUR SINS TO HIM, ASK HIM TO FORGIVE YOU! HE LONGS FOR YOU TO INVITE HIM INTO YOUR HEART & LIFE, HE LOVES YOU MORE THAN ANY PERSON EVER COULD, HE CREATED YOU!
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."-John 14:6
"But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven."-Matthew 10:33
“For the wages of sin is death (hell), but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord”-Romans 6:23
Man never ceases to amaze me. He may not get the world records, but he does the whole run while explaining every step, talking about whatever's on his mind, reading chat, and not missing a beat. Plus, he's into pure math, and wants to teach. I don't think I could describe a better guy if I tried
well said! one of the few speed runners who really keep my attention the entire time
He’s a great content creator.
kinda reminds me of Day9 and the old Starcraft 2 days tbh
Smallant is best ant
As someone studying to be a teacher, this video is FASCINATING
This guys so entertaining I sat through this with no breaks or other distractions and I have chronic unmedicated ADHD
Fr I just found him and he's the only streamer/youtuber that I can watch without getting bored/distracted
In fairness, as another unmedicated adhd person, it might just be because he’s talking so fast in this video that our attention spans don’t have time to wander
@@-INSERT_FUNNY_HERE- as yet another unmedicated adhd i can confirm this
As a fellow ADHDer I believe that is called hyperfocus
As someone who’s 100%ed twice, I cannot fathom doing all of it in under _a month._
Yeah like theres so much game how do they do this 😂 even after watching the whole thing im still like “h o w *cries in 2% of the game*”
I followed a guide and did it in just over two weeks.
@@Good_Hot_Chocolate mf nobody cares
@@Good_Hot_Chocolatewait until you try hyrule warriors… it’s harder than this
I still think about trying to 100 percent, I just... I really don't want to
The fact that you were able to speedrun this AND explain it eloquently is the true feat here. Amazing work and amazing video!
Holy crap it’s niche internet micro celebrity Evan gao
@@wilfredgoldenrod4032 hiiii
omg its the backflip guy!
wow hi evan :D
Yea the only cringe is the “boomie zoomie” thing. Just call it windbomb…
Taking notes on how to most efficiently complete a game I have never played
Yo patterz
Mistake
ok
ok
taking notes for glitches when I couldn’t even do a windbomb/boomy zoomy after 400 hours in game
17:39 POV: you click on the 2nd Let’s Play video with some “off camera grinding”
This felt like an older video. No script, just a highlight reel complete with his stories of him screwing around as a kid.
Great video!
I personally prefer these kinds of videos from SmallAnt
Right? My favorite video of his ever, from any channel, is where he told the story of how he almost died and proceeded to get unlimited popsicles, somehow turning into a debate about if a carrot is a spice, all while beating smo as Nintended (trademark)
Quality content.
@@mazzy_ivy which video is that?
@@phoenix4182 Beating Mario Odyssey Exactly as Nintendo Intended, the VOD is Mario Pro plays Odyssey the Correct Way
The fact that it took smant 30 seconds to name all requrenents, while already talking quite fast, just shows how insane this speedrun is
1:08:35
They did patch out bokoblin archers firing infinite arrows, before you could just indefinitely collect the arrows they shoot and there was no cap to how many you could collect from each one.
you still can collect as many as you want, it's just that after the arrows can no longer be picked up, you just save and reload
3 years ago I watched the original smallant 100% runs, and they were some of my favorite videos on youtube. so glad it's back, I've been waiting 3 years for some quality smallant BotW content again.
Bro his Math teacher actually played him so hard lmao, made him get engaged with the whole class and used his learning skills to everyone advantage, while also letting the teacher check that Smant had learned it properly
@@hanuro1362 it's completely possible considering he spent every lesson on his gba
Eh, I’d believe it. I remember fiddling with the calculator to make little programs and games too - funnily enough in precalc in 9th grade. My mind was blown when I learned you could interact with the graph screen!!~
I ended up making a silly little game kinda like snake where ya had to avoid crossing over your own line as ya went from one point to another and called it line thing. It was fun to fiddle with- though I struggled with the meaning of soh cah toa for the longest time until I wanted to try and make circles bounce off one another in a Java programming class later.
Hell, the 98/99 of 100 questions feels similar too. I was constantly a bit different - for better and worse - when it came to various things due to mental stuff that was understood very little at the time (ADHD, Autism, etc)
I was always the kid that would try to ask questions about things for the better of others - and in a lotta cases I was simply oblivious to how various things normally are. Hell, I’d bring snacks like goldfish n’ “Jesus pretzels” (butter snaps nicknamed because they tasted divine). Despite fights breaking out seemingly almost daily, I was just kinda vibing throughout with zero enemies ahahah
But ye - regardless of whether smant’s stories are ultimately true or false, I think they’re surprisingly believable :o
@@snoozy3202why not just watch the wr speedruns if you're just here for the strats?
god if yall hate him so much why tf are you here ???🤨
@@hanuro1362 he wanted to be a streamer cus his passion was videogames
Youre pretty good at keeping an audience hooked, a teacher would probably be a great back up.
Honestly with his attention to detail and optimization, he'd teach the kids the most efficient and effective strategies for kids to learn.
Do you have the ability to pull women?
@@josephmontoya5104bro what
@@aryan-gi1hwlet him cook. Answer the question
he’s talked about this before actually 😅
I am just amazed that somebody remembers where every shrine is, and what every shrine is as well as all those seeds. I’m honestly blown away.
It s really easy when you love the game very very much and you also have autism trust me
@@Egg_Ming_Gaahyperfixations are really common with autism!
if BOTW was someone's special interest, they're going to spend as much time as possible playing. it's a massive dopamine dump. there's probably a better way to explain this but that's how it makes sense to me! hope this was helpful. :)
@@Egg_Ming_Gaa it's mostly diagnostic sensationalism (but is also jokingly memed about). As someone who has an autistic diagnosis myself and have known many people on the spectrum.. I can assure you the "hyperfixation" is mostly a myth (in the sense of it being portrayed as a distinct "ability")
Autistic people tend to have very narrow interests due to being less socialized, resulting in a lack of "flexibility" and adopting new interests. This in turn might create the illusion of "hyperfixation". It has nothing to do about the actual ability to focus or stay focused, but rather the lack of diversity in personal interests, which manifests into very "one note" lifestyles that from an outside perspective might appear as if they have some sort of "superfocus" or fixation.
No... Some autistic people DO have specific interests they can focus on much better, but it's a spectrum and so everyone is different.
@@itsentdev are you replying to me or someone else? because that is essentially what i said. my point being that the ability of being able to "focus better" stems more from the fact that one has specific and limited interests, but not necessarily some distinct "special ability" to focus better than other humans (which alot of sensationalist media might sell it as).
i like how this guy casually speed runs BOTW as he recalls his past memories
'If we're doing it right, paya should be on her knees crying'
1:21:37
FANTASTIC
Lol
the run is already insane on its own but you being able to commentate the whole thing and explain why you're doing things and how certain tricks work is incredible and super entertaining!
1:01:00 seeing stalnox and not having to watch it get beat to death with a squeaky hammer for 40 minutes is a blessing
Did you know?
For the koroks that require you to chase the special flower, (20:55) the flower is normally yellow.
If the flower turns white, that means that when you get the flower that time, you'll actually get the korok seed.
Neat little bit of information I learned.
:)
After 3 years and a week before ToK, he did what he was set to do from the very beginning. You have my respect smallant o7
He has mine, too
@@Ashesdragons48 Mine too
@@B3313fanmine tooo
@@cheddarsunchipsyes8144 AND MY AXE
AND YOU HAVE MY BOW
This man can speedrun almost anything my god
He speedrunned sharpening a pencil, of course he can speedrun anything
Bros doing backflips on it
he speedran pencils and calculators he can do whatever
Except pokemon XD gale of Darkness
he said he practiced 100 hours for this run. that is insane
I completed the mainline and few extra in about 4 months. You're a goddamn machine to have played and entertained for 20 hours and still look and sound the same at the last minute of that !
Smallant telling his experiences at school:
Autism screaming at the door: 👁️👄👁️
Why are you writing that
I've had this thought before, and I am very much similar to him in school experience, but his personality, ease of interacting with chat with appropriate (and rarely overexplained) responses, and career/personal history would suggest he's not autistic. He's pretty smart and may have a dopamine disorder like ADHD, but he's doesn't seem to have ASD.
I say all this as an autistic man who's spent a lot of time studying neurology and brain disorders while trying to find out about his own disorders.
@@conorreedR2Che has a diagnosis lol
@@conorreedR2C It's cus he makes up most of the "personal" shit he tells you.
You really think he just self taught himself T1-basic in the small amount of time you have for 1 class everyday? You guys will believe anything this turd tells you lmao
With just how well spoken smallant can be and his ability to explain everything as he plays so well a casual can understand he would be a great teacher.
Boomy zoomy.
Wasn’t he substitute teaching for a little bit or am I tripping
@@BigBad21Are you thinking of Jerma?
@@brotherbear92 maybe idk
@@BigBad21Yeah Jerma was a substitue teacher.
Shame that he lost the job after he beat up one of the kid to death after they called him short
I remember watching your original 4 part series a few years ago and thats how I got addicted to you. It’s crazy how far this channel has gone
The Barbarian is a single-target melee troop. He is the first troop unlocked in the Barracks. He appears as a male kilt-clad warrior with an angry, battle-ready expression, hungry for destruction. He has close-cropped blond hair and a long, yellow horseshoe mustache.
heh 69 likes pls no change :c
As a casual Botw player it's very impressive to see these speed run tactics being used and how complex some of them can be .
The 100% runs for totk are probably gonna be insane
Today we learned two very important things about Smallant:
he's an increasingly good speedrunner and hates apple juice
Yes😂
That must be some cheap Apple juice
Its a testament to how massive this game is that even when you break it wide open like these speedruns do, the game still takes longer to beat than most AAA games played casually.
Well he is 100 % ing it so it’s not exactly playing casually , some AAA games takes a long time to 100%
@@godcat_thing no the person before means that "botw is so big that even a super fast speedrun takes longer than another game's casual playthrough"
@@user-.--.- but it's not really a testament of anything, 90% of open world titles take days if you collect all 900 fragments/posters/koroks, it's not anything botw excels at
This man can speedrun almost anything
Nice
I bet he can speed run childbirth if he wanted too
@@19cloudy tbf, i don't even undersrand the requirements but yes
Nice
Bro spedran so many things that sound like a meme, pencil sharpening, calculator, cookie clicker. Like those sound like comedic post ironic satirical memes in reference to speedrunning
I still can’t believe that I sat all the way through the 19 hour stream. With SmallAnt from start to finish. Keep up the good work Tanner!
The whole story from 46:07 to 55:32 is fascinating. This is the first SmallAnt video I've seen but it really gives and insight into how his brain works. And the final line is perfect "You know what'll happen to the valedictorian, he's just a degenerate that plays video games all day in his basement".
It was half bullshit and absolutely insanely cringe at best.
"I self taught myself T1-basic (notice how he didn't even know to call it that) and made super complex programs that auto anwer questions (which makes no sense cus he didn't know how to answer those questions, cus he hadn't learnt them yet, so how can he program something to do something he doesn't know how to do? He doesn't have access to repositories or others code so spoilers - he can't) for me all in the short time I have in class everyday!"
No. No he really didn't. He making shit up to sound cool and flex on little kids.
There's a reason he's a streamer and it's not because he's just SO AMAZING!!!! 🤦♀
@@chrish4439fax
@@chrish4439you sound really jealous, like go create a cure for cancer if you wanna out perform the guy damn
I love you speedrunner's who actually can explain things while doing it, y'all are INSANE!
3 years ago I watched the original smallant 100% runs, and they were some of my favorite videos on youtube. so glad it's back, I've been waiting 3 years for some quality smallant BotW content again.
same i literally wtach them to fall asleep
Bruh I’m watching 5 minutes into the speed run and I already love how e is able to do everything so fast while explaining everything perfectly super fast but just slow enogh to understand what he’s talking about I just love it especially since this is my first time watching the channel
i genuinely dont regret watching all 1 and a half hours of this at all, this speedrun is a lot cooler than i expected it to be, and your commentary kept it entertaining throughout.
I love how even after 20 hours straight, you still are communicative and seem to be just as fresh as when starting!
he did it over several streams
@@TheTrueNadir Then how does he have the same shirt on?
@@SmflappySome people wear the same clothes for more than one day (whether they wash it or not)
Drugs
@@strawberryjades It's a sweater too lmao. Everyone saying "same shirt" as if it's a t-shirt touching skin. It's a sweater. If you wash your sweater or jeans everytime you wear them just becuase you wore them and didn't get something on them, you dumb AF.
Also he knew he was youtubing this. Wearing the same sweater just makes the video look better. Pretty simple lol
In around 60 hours I did not even come close to 100%, this is one hell of a difficult challenge!
It did took him almost 69 hours on his first attempt at this a while back
400 hours :(
@@BlehhhXP700 :(
I do a lot of just walking around bc the world is so beautiful
@@cheddarsunchipsyes8144 dude, you could like, take a walk lol.
@@j-dizzle2946 mfw I see the dead rat next to the 7th McDonald’s I’ve seen in 18 minutes :|
At least 85% of the people who watched this were in it for the stories, not the gameplay
Lots of props to that teacher who eventually ended up making you teach the class. Right when you started that story, I could tell that he wasn't having a "bad day" but was trying to "trick you" into paying more attention in class and being engaged. He knew you understood the material (perhaps even better than himself) and wanted to give you a way to helping you help your peers give an better understanding of the coursework, from a new perspective. I come from a family of teachers and I've seen a lot of shitty ones that should *not* be teaching. This guy was a good egg.
W teacher
I like this guys videos as white noise because I literally don't know how to focus and I love being so insanely lost and having no idea what this guy's talking about whenever I zone back to ants voice, it's really fun to figure out what just happened.
keep doing what you do Ant, love your videos!
can't believe he did a 100% in 1:30:56, what a legend
The video is cutted. At 1:30:27 in the left top corner there is a total time: 19h59m11s.
@@chrisstoltz3648 no it isnt? it took him almost 20hours which is still almost nothing
@@chrisstoltz3648 55:28 you can cleary see how the time jumps up
It's a joke
R/whoosh
between the school stories and your descriptions of how you speedrun there is definitely something up with you, but you seem to be doing great. keep up the good work man
44:31 - 46:00
I just love how you describing yourself as a 4 year-old drinking a box of apple juice and then ending up absolutely despising it can be so weirdly entertaining to listen to. I so relate to when you said ''It's been 23 years since I've had apple juice, I'll try it again. And then I had it, and it was the same feeling... disgust, couldn't stand the stuff.'', so much so that I immediately hit the like button when you were done with your sentence.
Im just impressed how speedrunners like Smallant have to know the right path AND the complex glitches in their brain. I think that they have some of the best memory and reactions due to these runs
I'm really glad I found this run. I love people who can explain well what they're doing and why, and be an overall entertaining host. Great job, man!
Story time with smant is genuinely one of my most favourite parts of any video
I realized this is the edited speedrun, and I really appreciate you putting this out just before the release of TOTK so that all of us can enjoy your video, and refresh our minds of the game entirely with you. At some point I'll have to watch you stream for a whole speedrun unedited!
i did that ice cube shrine at 28:15 in the exact same manner in my own run and i was so proud of it, cool to see it’s part of this run
Either Smant is the greatest improv master of all time or he is living in a movie with all of his absolutely insane stories.
i vividly remember watching you and putting you on in the background when i got sick and couldn’t speak. thanks for that dude. have a good break
I don’t know why but I really want a smallant podcast where he just reviews games he likes talks about his life and just stuff in general like his voice is so damn calm for me
I would love that lmao
@@mazzy_ivy why do you find this funny?
i like how smallant can describe everything he does with precision and still 100 percents the game in a day
Cam we appreciate how good this is cut! You really feel like you dont miss anthing, but it never gets boring.
1:14:29 - Since I just found it myself today, it’s another of the roll-the-snowball puzzles on the southeast side of the Hebra North Summit. It’s easier to find with clear skies if you can ever get it to stop snowing.
So how tf does he stream daily, edit daily, post daily, and have time to map out these speedruns and practice them? My mind is BLOWN. This man is a maniac is the absolute best way. Go Ant
Pretty sure he has editors to make videos for him, still crazy tho
He’s got a manager but he said in his totk video that he is gonna edit them so they come out as soon as possible. He’s great at being swamped with work but still being calm
A vast majority of speedruns are mapped by either the world record holder or some other prominent figure in the community for that game.
He practices and learns on stream, mainly, and he takes weekends off. Normally he streams 8hr per day
Speedruns for not only Tears of the Kingdom Any% but also 100% is really going to be interesting when it comes out and what type of new glitches and exploits will be found to make it even faster
As long as Nintendo isn't brutal to it's fans for releasing content on it.
damn you are still alive stickmaster? Didn't see ya for a long time on any comment section
Spoilers.....
100% Speedrun is gonna be twice as long cuz there is whole underground Depths (which is the size of whole hyrule map underground) as well as sky islands. There is long ass quest at the start of the game which takes 2 hrs before the game sets us free with paraglider. Its not looking good.
its literally going to be the exact same things used here at the beginning. its basically the same game as the first one, so most of the exploits will more than likely be the same.
@@lonewanderer9113maybe but basic glitches like whistle running have been patched in the new game
What makes you the best speedrunning youtuber is your insane ability to pull off frame-perfect tricks and explain them at the same time
I love how he was talking about Totk (9:26) and only four days after this video comes out, the game releases
Imagine being a monk in a Shrine for 5000 years waiting for the worthy hero of hyrule to take time completing your shrine, and he just bombs himself over using a lil'boomy-zoomy. No wonder the monks disappeared in ToTK, taking the bomb rune with them.
This was the first 100% run I’ve seen and I’m not let down, this guy has good strats. Go big Fred!
Man I hope he doesn’t miss a torch or something when he completes the great plateau
and this makes me 100% confident when i say i have no life i just sat down for 1 hour and a half watching u and actually having fun great vid
You should submit this to the leaderboard!! What an amazing stream
I'm sure he did! It's not up there yet, but that's because a moderator has to watch the entire thing to verify it (I think).
gosh, this along with a new world record in a regular speedrun INSANELY close to TOK dropping is phenomenal timing
The wait for his 100% speedrun was so worth it and more, omg. Seeing how far he has come in speedrunning and streaming is amazing as a viewer of 3 years. Amazing work, and I can't wait for new content from him with ToK.
this guy makes me wanna see a 1 hour speedrun. hes so entertaining
Hearing your experiences in school reminds me so much of a friend of mine who was brilliant at most subject but just did what was necessary to get overall good grades and focussed on games and fun stuff. He was always super cool to everyone and was willing to help anyone who asked for help understanding smthn.
I think it’s super fun that ppl like the both of you who are so academically skilled took one look at school and said “nah I’ll be in my room gaming :)”
That guy reminds me of myself actually
That guy reminds me of myself actually
LMAO 15:00 that cut cracked me up man xD he went through everything so perfectly, explained all the stuff in detail only to miss a DAMN TORCH?? xD
I's insanely cool how sure of yourself you are explaining and performing these actions. Great job man
I think I know why I enjoy SmallAnt so much. He's like a faster talking NorthernLion that more uses life experiences than media references. Sounds exactly like him sometimes, down to the vocal pitch.
Love the fact that he explains every single trick and stuff he does, so cool for us newbies! Great vid man, keep it up!
holy shit imagine editing a 90 minute video
and imagine being smallant making this video
massive respect to anyone involved in the making of this video
Bro outspead the fog like he is the only one to survive when the fog comes
Your original 100% run of BOTW was my favorite series on your channel! I’ve probably watched it 4-5 times now since they’ve all come out and I’m so happy to see you doing this run again.